Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 2 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 3 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 4 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 5 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 6 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 7 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 8 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 9 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 10 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 11 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 12 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 13 | In Holland , it is a different situation as most of the players are students and those that are n't are compensated financially for additional time off work . |
| 14 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 15 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 16 | It presupposes that that is right that those boundaries have been rightly drawn essentially for all time . |
| 17 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 18 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 19 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 20 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 21 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 22 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 23 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 24 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 25 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
| 26 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
| 27 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |
| 28 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 29 | Look forward to your future with optimism , even though you may have been feeling held back for some time . |